Archive for the ‘American Revolutionary War’ Category

Ancestry.com is offering free access to their records from the Original 13 Colonies This weekend. The sale ends on July 4. Click on the illustration below for more info. See the full list of the 13 Colonies Collections by clicking here. Fold3.com is also offering free access to its Revolutionary War Records through July 15, […]

Finding celebrity roots has become a big deal on television. Now CNN show hosts have gotten into the act with a “Roots, Our Journeys Home” series which begins Sunday, October 12 at 9 pm Eastern. Following is the schedule. Click on the link for more detail. “ROOTS: OUR JOURNEYS HOME” kicks off Sunday, October 12th, […]

The following is from Maryann Stockert Tuck with the NCGS Webinars. Note that NCGS members have free access to the live webinars, as well as the archived classes. Free webinars are limited to specific programs on specific dates. October 3-5, 2014 Free three-day viewing of Mark Lowe’s “North Carolina Tax Lists: People, Time, and Delinquency” […]

The following teaser is from an article posted in the April 12, 2014 edition of chonicle.augusta.com: SYLVANIA, Ga. — More than two centuries after a daring British surprise attack routed American forces at Brier Creek, new efforts are underway to preserve one of Georgia’s least explored Revolutionary War sites. This battlefield has all the components […]

The following excerpts are from an article posted in the January 8, 2013 edition of the Enquirer Herald. CLOVER [York County, South Carolina] A dozen years before the United States was founded, three men gathered at a spring near Clover and decided to start one of the first churches organized in the colony of South […]

The following is from FamilySearch: FamilySearch has added more than 145 million indexed records and images to collections from BillionGraves, England, Russia, and the United States. Notable collection updates include the 65,593,352 indexed records from the new England and Wales, Birth Index, 1800–1920, collection, the 35,117,915 indexed records from the new England and Wales, Marriage […]

From the October 29, 2013, Northjersey.com – News Seven years ago, Russell Dutcher III embarked on a quest to find a family ancestor, a veteran of the American Revolution whose life story was nearly lost to the ages He pored over centuries-old census records and tax lists and scoured ancestry websites and cemeteries, driven by […]

Massive. How else do you describe a book with over 1,000 pages of Revolutionary War Pensions: Awarded By State Governments 1775-1874, The General And Federal Governments Prior To 1814, And By Private Acts Of Congress To 1905? Well, you could call it a brilliant reconstruction of lost records. On the 8th of November 1800 a […]

The following press release was received from Thomas MacEntee: August 12, 2013 – Springfield, IL. The Illinois State Genealogical Society (ISGS) announces the publication of an expanded and revised version of Soldiers of the American Revolution in Illinois. In its first venture in the world of self-publishing and “print on demand,” ISGS has published Soldiers […]

The following is from FamilySearch, dated Februry 15, 2013: Included in this week’s records update are 18 new collections; seven from Napoli, Italy, seven from the United States, four from Germany, and one from Netherlands. Among these collections are the United States Draper Manuscript Collection from 1740-1960 (more information can be found here), the Germany, […]

The following article was written by my friend, Thomas Fiske Who knew there was a dark side to genealogy? I certainly did not know until today. It was news to me before I figured it out. While looking at an Internet epistle from Family Roots, I saw two books that looked mighty interesting. As a […]

The following teaser is from an AP article published in the July 6, 2012 edition of wnyt.com: TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) – An Illinois family is donating their ancestor’s Revolutionary War artifacts to Fort Ticonderoga. Officials at Fort Ticonderoga say the engraved powder horn, musket and walking stick Amos Chaffee carried during the American Revolution will […]

The following was received from Ancestry.com – offering databases that include Revolutionary War records FREE through July 8. Did your family fight for your freedom or work to establish our great nation? FREE through July 8th, make your connection to early American ancestors in nearly 65 million carefully selected historical records from the 13 original […]

Over the years, it has been heard many times on the news were an actor or other personality in the public limelight states that if such and such legislation passes, or if so and so is elected to office that this person would move to Canada or some other country. I am not recall any […]

The following teasor is from an article posted in the April 23, 2012 edition of CityBeat.com. Newly restored digital copies of 73-year-old maps detailing where U.S military veterans are buried throughout Hamilton County will be unveiled Wednesday. The Hamilton County Recorder’s Office recently received map books dating to 1939 that were thought to have been […]